商務(wù)英語綜合教程課文及翻譯

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How to Attend a Meeting會(huì)議妙訣

To really succeed in a business or organization, it is sometimes helpful to know what your job is, and whether it involves any duties. Ask among your coworkers. "Hi," you should say. "I"m a new employee. What is the name of my job?" If they answer "long-range planner" or "lieutenant governor," you are pretty much free to lounge around and do crossword puzzles until retirement. Most jobs, however, will require some work.

There are two major kinds of work in modern organizations:

Taking phone messages for people who are in meetings, and, going to meetings.

Your ultimate career strategy will be to get a job involving primarily No. 2, going to meetings, as soon as possible, because that"s where the real prestige is. It is all very well and good to be able to take phone messages, but you are never going to get a position of power, a position where you can cost thousands of people their jobs with a single bonehead decision, unless you learn how to attend meetings.

The first meeting ever was held was back in the Mezzanine Era1. In those days, Man"s job was to slay his prey and bring it home for Woman, who had to figure out how to cook it. The problem was, Man was slow and basically naked, whereas the prey had warm fur and could run like an antelope. (In fact it was an antelope, only nobody knew this.)

At last someone said, "Maybe if we just sat down and did some brainstorming, we could come up with a better way to hunt our prey!" It went extremely well, plus it was much warmer sitting in a circle, so they agreed to meet again the next day,and the next.

But the women pointed out that the men had not produced anything, and the human race was pretty much starving. The men agreed that was serious and said they would put it right near the top of their "agenda". At this point, the women, who were primitive but not stupid, started eating plants, and thus modern agriculture was born. It never would have happened without meetings.

The modern business meeting, however, might better be compared with a funeral, in the sense that you have a gathering of people who are wearing uncomfortable clothing and would rather be somewhere else. The major difference is that most funerals have a definite purpose. Also, nothing is really ever buried in a meeting.

An idea may look dead, but it will always reappear at another meeting later on. If you have ever seen the movie, Night of the Living Dead2, you have a rough idea of how modern meetings operate, with projects and proposals that everyone thought were killed rising up constantly from their graves to stagger back into meetings and eat the brains of the living.

There are two major kinds of meetings:

A. Meetings that are held for basically the same reason that Arbor Day is observed --- namely, tradition. For example, a lot of managerial people like to meet on Monday, because it"s Monday. You"ll get used to it. You"d better, because this kind account for 83% of all meetings (based on a study in which I wrote down numbers until one of them looked about right). This type of meeting operates the way "Show and Tell"3 does in nursery school, with everyone getting to say something, the difference being that in nursery school, the kids actually have something to say.

When it"s your turn, you should say that you"re still working on whatever it is you"re supposed to be working on. This may seem pretty dumb, since obviously you"d be working on whatever you"re supposed to be working on, and even if you weren"t, you"d claim you were, but that"s the traditional thing for everyone to say. It would be a lot faster if the person running the meeting would just say, "Everyone who is still working on what he or she is supposed to be working on, raise your hand." You"d be out of there in five minutes, even allowing for jokes. But this is not how we do it in America. My guess is, it"s how they do it in Japan.

B. Meetings where there is some alleged purpose. These are trickier, because what you do depends on what the purpose is. Sometimes the purpose is harmless, like someone wants to show slides of pie charts4 and give everyone a big, fat report. All you have to do in this kind of meeting is sit there and have elaborate fantasies, then take the report back to your office and throw it away, unless, of course, you"re a vice president, in which case you write the name of a subordinate in the upper right hand corner, followed by a question mark, like this: "Norm?" Then you send it to Norm and forget all about it (although it will plague Norm for the rest of his career).

But sometimes you got to meetings where the purpose is to get your "input" on so mething. This is very serious because what it means is, they want to make sure that in case whatever it is turns out to be stupid or fatal, you"ll get some of the blame, so you have to escape from the meeting before they get around to asking you anything. One way is to set fire to your tie.

Another is to have an accomplice interrupt the meeting and announce that you have a phone call from someone very important, such as the president of the company or the Pope. It should be one or the other. It would sound fishy if the accomplice said, "You have a call from the president of the company, or the Pope."

You should know how to take notes at a meeting. Use a yellow legal pad. At the top, write the date and underline it twice. Now wait until an important person, such as your boss, starts talking; when he does, look at him with an expression of enraptured interest, as though he is revealing the secrets of life itself. Then write inter-locking rectangles like this:

If it is an especially lengthy meeting, you can try something like this:

If somebody falls asleep in a meeting, have everyone else leave the room. Then collect a group of total strangers, right off the street, and have them sit around the sleeping person until he wakes up. Then have one of them say to him, "Bob, your plan is very, very risky. However, you"ve given us no choice but to try it. Ionly hope, for your sake, that you know what you"re getting yourself into." Thenthey should file quietly out of the room.

要想在某個(gè)公司或機(jī)構(gòu)中真正取得成功，了解自己的工作是什么，有什么責(zé)任，有時(shí)會(huì)對你有所幫助。問問周圍的同事，你

說：“嗨，我是新來的。我的職務(wù)是什么?”如果他們的回答是“遠(yuǎn)期計(jì)劃員”或“副州長”，那么你大可四處閑逛，玩字謎游戲玩到退休。不過，大多數(shù)工作還是需要你做點(diǎn)什么的。

現(xiàn)代的機(jī)構(gòu)中有兩類主要的工作：

為正在出席會(huì)議的人記電話留言，以及——出席會(huì)議。

你的根本擇業(yè)策略應(yīng)該是盡快去找一個(gè)主要涉及第2項(xiàng)——出席會(huì)議的工作，因?yàn)檫@才是真正名望的所在。當(dāng)然，能給別人記電話留言也不錯(cuò)。但是，除非你學(xué)會(huì)怎么出席會(huì)議，否則，你將永遠(yuǎn)得不到大權(quán)在握的位置，那種你的一個(gè)愚蠢決定就能讓千萬人丟掉飯碗的位置。

有史以來的第一次會(huì)議可上溯到“夾生代”時(shí)期。那時(shí)候，男人的工作就是捕殺獵物并把它帶回給家里的女人，后者負(fù)責(zé)解決如何烹制的問題。問題是，男人行動(dòng)緩慢，基本上是一絲不掛，而獵物卻有溫暖的毛皮，跑得像羚羊一般飛快。(實(shí)際上那就是一只羚羊，只不過沒人知道而已。)

最后有人說了：“我們干脆坐下來集體出出主意，這樣說不定能找到更好的辦法來捕捉獵物!”聚會(huì)進(jìn)行得非常順利，而且坐成一圈還要暖和許多，所以他們約定第二天再次碰面，如是日復(fù)一日。

但是，女人說了，男人沒有帶回來任何東西，人類快要餓死了。男人也認(rèn)為形勢嚴(yán)峻，并表示將把這一事項(xiàng)列入“議程表”的最前列。到了這一步，簡單卻不愚蠢的女人只好開始以植物為食，現(xiàn)代農(nóng)業(yè)就此誕生。要是沒有會(huì)議，這一切就不可能發(fā)生。

不過，現(xiàn)代的商務(wù)會(huì)議更像是一場葬禮：與會(huì)人員穿著不舒服的衣裝，心里面巴不得能去別的什么地方。其間的主要區(qū)別在于大多數(shù)葬禮都有一個(gè)明確的目的。此外，在會(huì)議上從來不會(huì)真的有什么東西被埋葬。

某種意見可能看似已經(jīng)咽了氣，但它總會(huì)在此后的某個(gè)會(huì)議再次露面。如果你曾經(jīng)看過《活死人之夜》這部電影，你就會(huì)對現(xiàn)代會(huì)議的運(yùn)行方式有一個(gè)粗略的概念：所有人都認(rèn)為已經(jīng)死掉了的計(jì)劃和建議不斷從墳?zāi)怪信莱鰜恚瑩u搖晃晃重新走進(jìn)會(huì)議當(dāng)中，吃掉活人的大腦。

會(huì)議主要分為兩種類型：

一、基本上跟過植樹節(jié)一樣的會(huì)議，也就是說，只是一個(gè)傳統(tǒng)。比如說，許多管理人員愛在星期一開會(huì)，就因?yàn)檫@天是星期一。你會(huì)習(xí)慣的，而且最好得習(xí)慣，因?yàn)檫@樣的會(huì)議占所有會(huì)議的83%(這一數(shù)字來自我所作的一項(xiàng)研究，就是不斷寫出數(shù)字，直到其中一個(gè)看起來像那么回事為止)。這種會(huì)議按照幼兒園里的“秀秀說說” 模式進(jìn)行，每一個(gè)與會(huì)者都要說點(diǎn)什么。它與“秀秀說說”的區(qū)別在于：孩子們確實(shí)有東西要說。

輪到你說話的時(shí)候，你應(yīng)該說自己還在干著不管是什么反正是該干的工作。這看起來相當(dāng)白癡，因?yàn)楹茱@然你是在干著自己該干的工作，就算不是，也會(huì)說是。但這是所有人按例該說的事情。如果主持會(huì)議的人肯這么說：“所有還在干著自己該干的事的人請舉手”，那么會(huì)就要開得快得多。算上插科打諢的時(shí)間，你也可以在5分鐘之內(nèi)開完會(huì)。但是我們美國人不是這么干的。我猜這是日本人的做法。

二、據(jù)說有某種目的的會(huì)議。這種情形就比較復(fù)雜了，因?yàn)槟阍撟鍪裁慈Q于會(huì)議的目的是什么。有時(shí)候，會(huì)議的目的無傷大雅，比如是有人想放點(diǎn)餅圖幻燈片并發(fā)給大家一份又大又厚的報(bào)告。你在這種會(huì)議中要做的只是坐在那里發(fā)精彩的白日夢，然后把報(bào)告拿回辦公室再一扔了之。當(dāng)然，如果你是一位副總裁的話，情況就有所不同了。在這種情形下你應(yīng)該在報(bào)告的右上角寫上一個(gè)下屬的名字，再添上一個(gè)問號(hào)，就像這樣：“諾姆?”然后你把它交給諾姆并把這事忘到九霄云外(盡管這會(huì)給諾姆此后的事業(yè)帶來無盡煩惱)。

但是，有些時(shí)候會(huì)議的目的是讓你對某個(gè)事情“發(fā)表”點(diǎn)你的想法。這種情形實(shí)在嚴(yán)重，因?yàn)檫@意味著他們其實(shí)是想肯定，萬一出了什么愚蠢或是致命的差錯(cuò)，你也要背上一部分黑鍋。因此你必須在他們有機(jī)會(huì)來問你任何事情之前逃離會(huì)議，其中一個(gè)辦法是把自己的領(lǐng)帶點(diǎn)著了。

另一種辦法是找一個(gè)同伙來打斷會(huì)議，宣稱有重要人物給你打電話，比如說本公司總裁或者教皇。只能是其中之一，因?yàn)橐悄愕耐镞@樣說就會(huì)顯得很可疑：“有人打電話給你，是本公司總裁，或者教皇。”

你要懂得怎樣作會(huì)議記錄。用一本黃色的便簽簿，在頂頭寫上日期，再在下面劃雙橫線，然后開始等待，直到有重要人物——比如說你的老板——開始講話。在他講話的時(shí)候，你要帶著充滿濃厚興趣的表情看著他，就像他是在揭露生命本身的秘密一樣。然后，在紙上畫類似這樣的互相交錯(cuò)的長方形：

如果這是一個(gè)特別冗長的會(huì)議，你可以試試這樣的東西：

如果有人開會(huì)時(shí)睡著了，就讓其他人都離開會(huì)議室。然后就在大街上找一群完全陌生的人，讓他們坐在夢中人周圍。等到他醒來的時(shí)候，就讓其中一個(gè)人對他說：“鮑勃，你的計(jì)劃風(fēng)險(xiǎn)非常、非常之大。但是，你讓我們沒得選擇，只能去嘗試了。為你考慮，我只希望你明白你把自己置于了什么樣的境地。”然后，這些人應(yīng)該魚貫而出，悄然地離開會(huì)議室。

以上就是為大家整理的商務(wù)英語綜合教程課文及翻譯，希望能夠?qū)Υ蠹矣兴鶐椭Ｉ虅?wù)英語學(xué)習(xí)是有困難的，因?yàn)椴粌H要學(xué)習(xí)英語，還要學(xué)習(xí)商務(wù)知識(shí)，但是只要努力，相信都是可以學(xué)好商務(wù)英語的。